Shelfmark
MS 291
Title
Volume of English heraldic devices arranged by rank. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, not after 1572.
Physical description
1 volume (86 leaves) : paper : illustrated ; 21 x 17 cm.
Note
Lists of English aristocrats with their arms arranged by rank and by date (thus, the section on Earls begins with Edgar Aetheling (1052?-c.1125) and ends with Edward Fiennes de Clinton, first earl of Lincoln (1512-1585)).
Note
Devised title.
Note
Date inferred from reference on fol. 8r to William Paulet, first marquess of Winchester, as 'now living': Pawlet died in 1572.
Note
The main text is foliated in ink, 1-67.
Note
The lists include a hand-coloured armorial device for each entry.
Note
The main text followed by five leaves of heraldic and genealogical notes on the Dispenser/Spenser family.
Note
Final page of writing bears a 'Shield of the Trinity', or scutum fidei, together with the motto 'Altro diletto ch'imparar non prouo' and the name Richard Spenser, and 'Nurimbergae Noricoru[m] 15o Feb: 1553'.
Note
Pencil annotation on front flyleaf: George Napier collection. Presumably George G. Napier, from whom Burrell acquired other manuscripts (eg. MS 295a).
Note
Bookplate on front pastedown recording donation to Eton College Library by Joseph Frederick Burrell in 1983. Pencil annotation: Burrell MS 2.
Binding
17th century mid brown reverse calf; blind tooled double fillet with inner frame of two arabesque rolls with lozenge-shaped cornerpieces; red sprinkled edges.
Subject
Aristocracy (Social class) Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Subject
Heraldry England Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Napier, George G. (George Glen) former owner.
Added entry--place
England
Language code
eng
Identifier
B46752